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You can make in-text links by selecting some text in the rich text editor and then clicking on the link button (it looks like two joined links of a chain, if you hover over it, it says “Insert/edit link (Alt-a)”) and then filling out the form with the link and a description.

It also gives you the option of opening up the link in the same window or a new one. I like to choose the same window because it’s easy enough for people to override it and open up the link in a new window if they’d like but the reverse is much harder. If you want to get rid of the link, select the linked text and click on the button that looks like a broken link chain (hovering gives you “Unlink (Alt-s)”) and this will remove any links from the text.

If you’re not using the rich text editor, either use html (I’ll create a crib sheet shortly), or highlight the text and click on the “link” button, filling out the link location as requested.

This might be a good place to point out an apparent bug (it actually isn’t a bug) with Firefox. I used to have a problem where when I clicked on the link button, I’d only be able to see half the popup window and couldn’t make it any bigger. This was really annoying and meant that it was impossible to edit links because you could only see part of it. Apparently this has something to do with the JavaScript settings in Firefox. If you go to your Firefox Options/Content/Advanced (JavaScript Settings) and make sure “move or resize windows” is checked. Also I think “raise or lower windows” should be checked (but try fiddling around with these setting until it works for you).